Wel­come to the Con­fu­cius Insti­tute at Purdue

CIP Mis­sion

In part­ner­ship with Pur­due Uni­ver­sity China Cen­ter and Shang­hai Jiao Tong Uni­ver­sity, the Con­fu­cius Insti­tute at Pur­due (CIP) pro­motes Chi­nese pro­grams and stud­ies on China, ini­ti­ates and fos­ters Chi­nese lan­guage and cul­tural pro­grams to serve Pur­due Uni­ver­sity, the Greater Lafayette com­mu­nity and the State of Indi­ana by pro­vid­ing value-​added infor­ma­tion and exper­tise on Chi­nese cul­ture and lan­guage edu­ca­tion in busi­ness, global engi­neer­ing and tourism for aca­d­e­mic pro­grams, research project teams, com­mu­nity out­reach and K-​12 schools.